RE 6120 Psychological Processes in Reading

 

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Readings:

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Recommended Purchase

  1. Reading Ability (1985) by Charles Perfetti
  2. Language and Reading Success (1999) by Andrew Biemiller
  3. A packet of selected articles

Optional Purchase

  1. Beginning To Read (1990) by Marilyn Jager Adams
  2. The Psychology of Reading (1989) by Keith Rayner and Alexander Pollatsek
  3. The Causes of High and Low Reading Achievement (2000) by Ronald P. Carver
  4. Selected articles in the annotated bibliography

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Topics

1. Introduction and Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Reading Processes:

Introduction and Preliminary Information—Rayner & Pollatsek (Ch. 1)
The Interface of Lexical Competence and Knowledge of Written Words—Henderson [on reserve]
Continuities in Reading Acquisition, Reading Skill, and Reading Disability—Perfetti [on reserve]

Study Guide Questions for week 1 readings

Key Terms for Week 1 & 2 Readings

2. Mature Reading Processes:

Reading Ability—Perfetti (Chapter 1 and Chapter 2) [on reserve]
Reading Ability—Perfetti (Chapter 3 and Chapter 4)

Word Perception—Rayner & Pollatsek (Ch. 3) [on reserve]
The Work of the Eyes—Rayner & Pollatsek (Ch. 4)

Analyzing the Reading Process: Use and Uses of Meaning—Adams (Ch. 7) [on reserve]
Adding the Phonological Processor—Adams (Ch. 8) [on reserve]

3. Beginning Reading Processes:

Developmental Steps in Learning to Read—Morris & Bloodgood [on reserve]
Grapheme-Phoneme Knowledge—Ehri [on reserve]

The Representation Problem in Reading Acquisition—Perfetti [on reserve] 
Phonological Recoding and Self-Teaching: sine qua non of Reading Acquistion—Share [on reserve]
Reading Ability--Perfetti (Chapter 8) {optional reading}
Lexical Quality Hypothesis--Perfetti & Hart {optional reading}

4. Toward Reading Fluency:

On the Acquisition of Reading Fluency—Schreiber [on reserve]
Reading Rate: Theory, Research, and Practical Implications—Carver [on reserve]

The Causes of High and Low Reading Achievement—Carver (Chapter 1 and Chapter 5 and Chapter 6) [on reserve]
The Causes of High and Low Reading Achievement—Carver (Chapter 4 and Chapter 7 and Chapter 21)

5. Comprehending Text and Advanced Reading:

Learning Words from Context—Nagy, Herman, & Anderson [on reserve]
Conditions of Vocabulary Acquisition—Beck & McKeown [on reserve]
Teaching Vocabulary within the Context of Literature—Dole, Sloan, & Trathen [on reserve]
Language and Reading Success —Biemiller
Teaching Vocabulary--Biemiller {optional reading}

Comprehension: Its Nature and Assessment—Barr (Ch. 5)
Schema Theory—Anderson and Response by Bransford [on reserve]
Development of Strategic Readers—Paris, Wasik, & Turner [on reserve]
An Analysis of Spontaneous Study Strategies—Wade, Trathen, & Schraw [on reserve]
The Effects of Strategy Instruction on the Comprehension Performance of At-Risk Readers--Dole, Brown, & Trathen{optional reading}

6. Brain Research and Reading Processes

To be announced
Reading Ability: Lexical Quality to Comprehension--Perfetti
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